Tuesday, March 31, 2015

The subject of female-on-female
violence has been almost completely ignored by criminologists, even more so
than the more general phenomenon of VbW (Violence by Women), which, in itself
has gotten scant attention from objective scholars of crime.

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FULL TEXT: Detroit(Mich.), January 17. – A shocking tragedy was
enacted, at LapeerVillage 70 miles north of
Detroit, last evening. While the people were at church Mrs Bernard went to the
house of Rev. E. Curtis, the Baptist pastor, attacked his wife, an old lady
about 65, threw her down, poured gasoline over her clothing, and set it on
fire. The poor woman was shockingly burned, and, she lived but a few hours.
Curtis until last year was pastor at Greenville in this State for several
years. Mrs Bernard came to Lapeer a few weeks ago from Greenville, where she
lives, being the wife of quite a prominent lumber man, and a woman about 40
years old. She has been busy meantime attending meetings, mingling in general
society, but giving no intimation of any ill will towards her victim. It is
believed by many she is insane from religious excitement, but others think the
case is one of down right wickedness. She is under arrest.

FULL TEXT: Detroit, Dec. 27. – A revolting case of brutality
is reported at Reed City, Mich. Mrs. Swarthout, a photographer, has been
arrested for maltreating her niece. She is charged with having tied the girl’s
legs a stout cord, and then putting in a stick and turning the chord, and then
putting in a stick and turning the chord until the child would became almost
unconscious with pain. She would also cord her tongue in the same manner until
the skin burst. Mrs. Swarthout has been bound over to the next term of court,
and in default of $1,000 bail languishes in jail.

Sunday, March 29, 2015

This
is collection includes only those perpetrators for which a photo is
available. Several dozen cases from this time period are therefore not
included here. This selection nevertheless offers a quick way to get an
idea of what a female serial killer "looks like" these days.

The research on this website has turned up historical cases
of FSKs that number many times the multiple of the numbers of cases reported in
the standard literature. Thus the statistics found in standard literature on
FSKs must be treated as obsolete and in need of being re-examined by teams of
scholars who can put to use the new research – which includes data on many
hundreds of “forgotten” cases – that supersedes what is currently available in
order to present a more accurate picture of the subject of FSKs.

Excerpt: Robert St. Estephe, “Breaking the Silence of the
Lambs: Female Serial Killers and Collective Amnesia,” Sep. 19, 2015 (also
published under the title “Collective amnesia regarding violence by women /
call for reform,” A Voice for Men, Nov. 20, 2015)

Wuornos was not only not America’s first female serial
killer, but was more like the 275th and she was, according to my current count,
the 13th to be executed in this country. [15]

The experts have determined that “female serial killers are
rare” (in comparison with their male counterparts). The experts, represented,
for example, by 135 participants from 10 countries in the FBI’s 2008
international conference on “Serial Murder,” [16] base their claims on
incomplete research (without ever stopping to wonder whether historical
research is even slightly systematic, let alone as complete as can be
reasonably managed). [17]

The “official” number of historical US female serial killer
cases (up to the last few years) is often used is 62. The most commonly cited
estimate of the ratio of male to female serial killers is 1:6. My own list of
US cases from the period 1829-2008 includes 330. [18] We might as just how rare
are these criminals when there are 5 times as many as the experts say there are?

[End of excerpt]

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What does a serial killer look like?
Answer: Like this.
(It's time to wake up.)
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